Everyone was overjoyed to see this, and the Foundation Establishment cultivators collapsed to the ground, their faces pale. Zhang Ling and the other six Golden Core cultivators also breathed a sigh of relief. Their consumption was also not small.
After the formation was broken, the surrounding environment also changed drastically. The ground was crisscrossed with ravines, and countless large and small deep cracks appeared. Even the small altar with the golden array flags inserted in it had some fine cracks.
This made Zhang Ling guess that if it continued for a while, the golden light pillars arranged around would not be able to hold on.
Although his task was only to temporarily seal this formation eye, it took nearly ten days of continuously injecting spiritual power to activate the array flags, which also consumed a lot of energy.
Then he waved his sleeves, and a gust of wind swept all the dust within a few feet around his feet to the side. He directly sat down cross-legged, swallowed a pill, and began to meditate.
Yangshan Taoist, Fire Dragon Elder, and others were also doing the same thing as him. Each chose a place to recover from the consumption of the past few days.
Although the formation has now been broken, and the treasure they have been longing for is right in front of them, everyone, as Golden Core experts, knows that their own state is the most important thing.
They don't know if there are other restrictions and dangers ahead, so maintaining sufficient energy and spiritual power is the only way to explore the treasures better.
After about half a day, Zhang Ling and the other Golden Core cultivators had recovered.
Several people gathered on the huge platform, like old friends, exchanging cultivation experiences.
Although they are also Golden Core experts, at their level, the advancement of cultivation itself takes a very long time.
The only ones who can guide their cultivation are the Nascent Soul old monsters with higher cultivation bases. But none of them had the blessing to have Nascent Soul cultivators guide their cultivation.
Even the Golden Core cultivators of those powerful forces or sects rarely get guidance from Nascent Soul cultivators.
So basically, when Golden Core cultivators meet some familiar cultivators, they will sit down and exchange cultivation experiences to verify their own cultivation.
In a flash, they exchanged ideas for seven or eight hours. It was not until the next morning that everyone ended the exchange with reluctance. But everyone's face showed some thoughtful expressions, and they all gained some insights from other people's experiences.
This is very beneficial to their cultivation.
Of course, everyone has not forgotten the most important purpose of this trip, which is to explore the ancient ruins. After resting for half an hour, everyone once again summoned the dozen or so Foundation Establishment cultivators. These people have also recovered their spiritual power.
In addition to the four people brought by Chen Qing, the remaining ten or so Foundation Establishment cultivators were all disciples and grandchildren of Yangshan Old Taoist.
After learning more about this person, Zhang Ling also learned that Yangshan Old Taoist is not a rogue cultivator, but an elder of a small sect called White Cloud Temple.
Zhang Ling had never heard of White Cloud Temple, but after asking Fire Dragon Elder, he learned that White Cloud Temple is a Taoist temple with only seven or eight Core Formation cultivators, and there are no Nascent Soul level old monsters sitting in it.
There are many small forces like this in the world of cultivating immortals, which can only be regarded as a last-class sect, and it is easy to cut off the inheritance.
...
Everyone was ready to go, and Yangshan Old Taoist left four Foundation Establishment disciples to guard outside. They came to the stone wall and directly broke through the stone wall with brute force, revealing a stone cave of several feet in size behind it.
The stone cave was deep and bottomless.
Zhang Ling released his spiritual consciousness and explored forty miles in the direction of the stone cave, only to find that the space inside was very large, with many winding forks. He couldn't explore it clearly for a while.
Some moonstones can be seen on the walls of the second group of caves, but the light of these moonstones is dim. It seems that this place has been closed for at least thousands of years.
But it also proves that there are indeed traces of cultivators' activities in it. Led by Chen Qing, who is a formation mage, a dozen people entered inside.
...
The sound of footsteps echoed in a dark stone passage. At a fork in the stone cave, seven or eight groups of yellow or white light flew out, illuminating an area. Zhang Ling and others followed behind.
A quarter of an hour has passed since entering the cave, and nothing has been found.
They are not moving fast, but not slow either.
Unexpectedly, nothing was found. Zhang Ling was fine, but Yangshan Old Taoist's face was a little gloomy.
Suddenly, a piece of ancient bronze array plate in Chen Qing's hand lit up with white light. Immediately, this person said.
"There are strong spiritual fluctuations in the left fork, there may be a discovery."
Everyone stopped. Yangshan Old Taoist narrowed his eyes and released his spiritual consciousness towards the left fork to investigate, and then nodded.
The group turned into the left fork, and after walking for the time it takes to drink a cup of tea, they saw a circular doorway several feet high. Inside, there seemed to be a space of a hundred feet in size.
A layer of cyan light罩 appeared on the doorway. Seeing this, everyone was overjoyed. Soon they arrived at the doorway. Chen Qing explored around and said that this was just an ordinary isolation light curtain.
Without the need for several Golden Core cultivators to take action, this person directly called five or six Foundation Establishment cultivators and spent more than a dozen breaths of time to break the light curtain.
Behind the doorway was really a large space. The ground was paved with bluestone, and several stone statues of figures stood in it. It seemed to be a hall.
After entering inside, Zhang Ling immediately released his spiritual consciousness to investigate.
Then he found that on the surrounding walls, at intervals, there was a recessed area several feet wide and several feet high, in which stood a terracotta warrior wearing bronze armor.
As soon as they entered this place, it was as if they had triggered some mechanism, and the terracotta warriors began to rattle and clatter.
Faced with the suddenly revived terracotta warriors, everyone was not panicked, because they all found that these terracotta warriors were just first-order low-level puppet soldiers.
A black-armored puppet, more than a dozen feet tall, waved a long knife magic weapon in its hand, and slashed out several red and bright knife芒.
It seemed to be not weak, but it was immediately blocked by a white-faced youth in the Foundation Establishment stage with a yellow long sword. The youth raised his left hand again, and immediately sacrificed a black stone ball.
The black stone instantly turned into the size of a millstone, and with a loud bang, it directly smashed the black-armored puppet into pieces.
For a time, various colors of spiritual light shone in this space. More than a dozen Foundation Establishment cultivators showed their respective magic weapons, and each sent out two or three attacks, and they all scattered these puppets.
These are just first-order puppets with only the strength of the Qi Refining stage. Three or four Foundation Establishment cultivators are enough to deal with them.
Of course, some people were interested in these puppets. They directly used means to trap the black-armored puppet, then took off the driving spirit stone from the puppet, and put the puppet away.
Yangshan Old Taoist didn't say much when he saw this. These first-order puppets are not very useful to their Golden Core cultivators.
